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⌈ Secret Post #6627 ⌋

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RIP Michelle Trachtenberg

[(Anonymous)]

She passed away today at age 39.

Re: RIP Michelle Trachtenberg

[(Anonymous)]

Genuinely shocked by that one.

Re: RIP Michelle Trachtenberg

[(Anonymous)]

Legit did a double take upon reading that news. She was only a year younger than me.

So tragic - condolences to her loved ones.

Re: RIP Michelle Trachtenberg

[(Anonymous)]

WTF?! I did not see that one coming. I remember watching her on Nickelodeon when I was a kid. She seemed like she at least had a decent career after being a child star.

Re: RIP Michelle Trachtenberg

[(Anonymous)]

was literally watching Buffy season 5 when I saw the news. I had no idea she'd been dealing with major health issues.

Re: RIP Michelle Trachtenberg

[(Anonymous)]

This was a gut-punch. I knew of her in a tangential "we all live in LA, she went to the same school as person I knew" way. But her Harriet is iconic, and I think she gets major props for playing the infinitely hateable Dawn Summers without being hateable herself. I loved her as Georgina Sparks as well.

Baruch Dayan Ha'Emet, may her memory be a blessing.

Re: RIP Michelle Trachtenberg

[(Anonymous)]

My best friend and I were talking about her when we were talking about Buffy a couple weeks ago. We're the same age as her so it was quite the mind fuck when I found out today. She was super talented, grew up watching her and loving the work she did.

Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

What are your favorite book covers?

Re: Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

This older version of A Wrinkle in Time cover by Dell Laurel Leaf in 1995. It always filled me with wonder as a child.

Re: Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

The Scholastic cover of the first Harry Potter book is extremely nostalgic for me.

Re: Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

the nice solid-color canvas or fake leather ones with the gold-embossed lettering. so many of my childhood library books were like that, as well as the best clasics read in school. takes me back to a happy time when I read voraciously.

Re: Kind of based on 2

[kaijinscendre]

I love all of Brian Evenson's book covers. As someone who owns them all, I also love that they match for bookcase purposes.

Also, I have nostalgia for the Little House on the Prairie series covers.

Re: Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like every 80s fantasy books cover qualifies. And I loved the art style of the 99s for mystery and horror books. I’d go into a book store and feel things just looking at the covers and it made me want to read everything.

Re: Kind of based on 2

[thewakokid]

I love all the Paul Kidby Discworld book covers. Especially Night Watch.

Re: Kind of based on 2

[volkameria]

Those old boring covers you'd expect to see in legal libraries. Solid color, or maybe 2 colors, canvas and an embossed label denoting precisely what the contents are. I would adore having my entire library in this style.

Failing that, anything with bold colors that tells a story of its own. The sort of art-deco inspired covers of the Maisie Dobbs books, or The Trackers by Charles Frazier... that's the good stuff.

Re: Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

The Hilary Knight-illustrated Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books by Betty Macdonald.
This Howliday Inn by James Howe cover - https://www.fictiondb.com/covers/0380645432.jpg This 1956 cover of Wildfire at Midnight by Mary Stewart - https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/515WtSKdOlL._SL350_.jpg

Re: Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

I can't think of a more perfect cover for Upton Sinclair's The Jungle:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71CRsgHnmWL.jpg

Re: Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

I have a nostalgic fondness for Mercedes Lackey's book covers for her Magic's Pawn trilogy:

https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/mage-trilogy-lackey-1.jpg

I believe the artist's name is Jody Lee. They had editions where the wild roses, apples and autumn leaf pattern on the sides were done in this shimmery metallic color. I still have my copies packed away in a box somewhere.

Re: Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

I've only just started getting into Terry Prachett's books, but I really like the cover art for a lot of the books like Snuff.

Re: Kind of based on 2

[(Anonymous)]

I love the older Dear America covers that have a photograph of a girl instead of an illustration.

What are you reading?

[(Anonymous)]

Currently about 3/4 through Cursed Cocktails by SL Rowland and mostly enjoying it. I find it odd and kind of distracting that there are no women in the book other than a nosey grumpy old lady neighbor that has about two lines, but other than that it's good.

Insane stuff you legitimately believe

[thewakokid]

Lets go nice and light for a little bit.

For me, I genuinely, in my heart of hearts, do not believe fungi is native to this planet. It's just too absurd an organism. There's fucking MIND controlling fungus out there FFS. Maybe it landed here on an asteroid, maybe it was implanted by some higher intellect, maybe it's an aspect of some unknowable cosmic horror. But I KNOW in my bones that it is not a natural part of this planets ecosystem.

In the meantime

[philstar22]

Having issues with my knee again. Had them on and off since 2023 car accident. It is really bad right now. By the end of the day today I'm limping and it keeps feeling like it wants to give out on me.

I couldn't get doctor's appointment until monday. Is there anything I can do in the meantime, besides putting a brace on it?

Thoughts on oppression

[(Anonymous)]

I happened across some Twitter controversy today. There are some people who think that Afghani cricket should be boycotted, due to the country's treatment of women. There are others who think that this is white saviorism. One tweet in particular has drawn ire: Sally Hines noted that Afghani women have not themselves called for the "help" of white women.

This poses some questions, because the tension here is between perceived oppression of a particular group and the imposition of Western culture on countries outside the West, which recalls colonialism. Cultural relativism also plays a role.

So, is it the case that oppression is culturally relative? Is it the case that we may view something as oppressive, but that this doesn't mean it's always oppressive, and in fact it may not be so should another culture view it differently? Is it the case that oppression has a stable definition, but it's another form of oppression to try to tackle it if it's taking place in a country or culture to which you don't belong?

Let's say it's the former. Let's say that it's up to each individual culture to decide what counts as oppression. In what way does that impact our ability to argue against the oppression of people in our own culture? Could that not provide oppressors with a handy narrative?

Let's say it's the latter. Is there a moral hazard to turning a blind eye to oppression on the grounds that it's happening to people outside your own culture? Is there not potentially a kind of chauvinism there? Sure, you're avoiding white saviorism, but you're also arguably saying, "these wrongs don't concern me, because they're being done to people who aren't my race/ethnicity/nationality." Doesn't that undermine the broader project of equality? Doesn't that undermine anti-nationalist movements?

Now, there is an old argument about how liberation movements need to be organic. The people actually living in a given culture know best how to navigate it, and should be deferred to. However, that's an entirely different proposition from I've seen be argued, which essentially comes down to, "they're not your race/ethnicity/nationality, so it's not your business." Is that true? Is it colonialism, even if the witnessed treatment is agreed to be universally wrong?

These are thorny things. I have a personal sense that some things are always wrong, but that we'll make excuses for them if they benefit us, or if we simply don't want to bother with them. But to a certain extent, I also understand the impulse to not want to impose upon other peoples, so I think the tension in some is genuine. Anyway, I'm just thinking out loud, I guess.